Kevin Phillips (political commentator)
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Kevin Phillips (born November 30, 1940) is an American writer and commentator, largely on politics, economics, and history. Formerly a prominent Republican, Phillips has become disaffected with his former party over the last two decades, and is now one of its harshest critics. He is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio, and is a political analyst on PBS' NOW with Bill Moyers.
Phillips was a senior strategist for Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign, which was the basis for a book, The Emerging Republican Majority, which predicted a conservative realignment in national politics, and is widely regarded as one of the most influential recent works in political science. His predictions regarding shifting voting patterns in presidential elections proved accurate, though they did not extend "down ballot" to Congress until the Republican revolution of 1994.
The author of eleven books, he lives in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
Books
- American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush (2004) ISBN 0670032646
- William McKinley (2003)
- Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich (2002)
- The Cousins’ Wars: Religion, Politics and the Triumph of Anglo-America (1999)
- Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street and the Frustration of American Politics (1994)
- Boiling Point: Democrats, Republicans and the Decline of Middle Class Prosperity (1993)
- The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath (1990)
- Staying on Top: The Business Case for a National Industrial Strategy (1984)
- Post-Conservative America (1982)
- Mediacracy: American Parties and Politics in the Communications Age (1974)
- The Emerging Republican Majority (1969)
Quote
Now what I get a sense of from all of this -- and then topped obviously by spending all the money in 2000 to basically buy the election -- is that this is not a family that has a particularly strong commitment to American democracy. Its sense of how to win elections comes out of a CIA manual, not out of the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution."-- Kevin Phillips writing about the Bush family in American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush
External links
- Bio page at the American Dynasty site (http://www.americandynasty.net/kp.htm)
- Fmr. Top Republican Strategist Discusses The Bush Family's Rise To Power Since WWI (http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/12/1448237&mode=thread&tid=25)
- Fmr. Top Republican Strategist Examines the History of the Bush Family (http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/17/1530204&mode=thread&tid=25)